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<div style="position:absolute;top:200;left:295">The Net Tender</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:289;left:295">Newsletter of St. Andrew &amp; St. John Episcopal Church </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:335;left:730">March 2011 </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:375;left:274"><b>&quot;COME HOME FOR SUPPER” EVENING </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:406;left:274"><b>A GREAT SUCCESS</b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:437;left:274">The first Come Home for Supper evening </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:458;left:274">involving all four Episcopal churches was a </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:478;left:274">great success! </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:508;left:274">Ninety-three people attended, at the homes  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:528;left:274">of twelve hosts from Bass Harbor to Town </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:549;left:274">Hill to Hulls Cove.  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:578;left:274">As always, the food was delicious. Even </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:599;left:274">nicer were the new connections made  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:620;left:274">between parishioners from the other churches. We were even blessed with a </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:641;left:274">clear evening’ a rarity this winter. </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:670;left:301">Thank you to the coordinators in each parish: Dick Salisbury (Church of our </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:691;left:301">Father), Dorothy Clunan (St. Mary’s) and Diane Phipps (St. Saviour’s.)</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:711;left:301">Thanks to all who hosted and all who came. </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:732;left:301">Thanks also to seven who volunteered to host but were not needed this time. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:753;left:301">We’ll ask you first next time around!</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:881;left:58"><b>BULLETS FROM FEBRUARY VESTRY MEETING </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:909;left:79">Two new vestry members to serve until January, 2012 are being sought.  Please speak to a warden or cur-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:930;left:79">rent vestry member if available to serve during this important year. </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:960;left:79">A contract with Eden Builders for the design phase of our building project was approved with the intent of </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:981;left:79">negotiating a price with them for the construction phase when design is complete. </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:1010;left:79">With the current agreement with our Sawyer House realtor ending soon, we discussed how best to proceed </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1031;left:79">with selling the property. Meanwhile, the cottage will be listed for rent for the summer. </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:1060;left:79">Our yearly donation of 1% of our parish budget for theological education will go in 2011 to the General </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1081;left:79">Theological Seminary in New York. </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:1111;left:79">The parishes of St. Andrew &amp; St. John and St. Saviour will hold a joint vestry retreat on March 12. </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:1141;left:79">Members of the parish will be asked to give their feedback on how our experiment in sharing clergy with </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1161;left:79">other the Island Episcopal churches is going in a forum on March 13</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:1161;left:582">.  A second forum to be held in April </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1182;left:79">will ask for feedback on our direction forward.  Seasonal members will be encouraged to share their views </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1203;left:79">as well. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:787;left:58">After the enthusiastic response, <i>“When will the next one be?” </i>was the first question asked. The answer is after </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:808;left:58">Lent and Easter, in May or early June. Stay tuned! And please offer any comments or new ideas. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:828;left:58">Joan Bromage, Rita Redfield, Ida Smallidge and Elaine Theriault (St. John coordinators)</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:1503;left:58">I was going to write about the theological function of </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1524;left:58">the vestry when I bumped into this quotation and </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1544;left:58">thought I should start here. In short: we are all always </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1565;left:58">theologians and missiologists. Many of us have met </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1586;left:58">Eric Liddell even if we do not know it, and surely he </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1606;left:58">could never have anticipated our knowing him. In that </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1627;left:58">respect this quotation attributed to him echoes all </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1648;left:58">around us: just as often than not, we do not know </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1669;left:58">which it is – attraction or repulsion - and we do not </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1689;left:58">know what the ultimate results of our efforts for that </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1710;left:58">student or client or patient or vendor or project after </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1731;left:58">we have left the scene. We simply do not know. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1759;left:58">Eric Liddell is commemorated on our newly revised </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1780;left:58">liturgical calendar, Holy Women, Holy Men, on Feb-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1800;left:58">ruary 22</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:1800;left:135">as an English missionary to China. Before </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1821;left:58">he returned to China as a missionary, he competed in </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1842;left:58">the 1924 Olympics in Paris for the British. You may </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1862;left:58">know him as the subject of the film Chariots of Fire.  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1883;left:58">This parish has had quite a few runners or former run-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1904;left:58">ners, including Emily Blair Stribling, Mary Vekasi, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1924;left:58">Cuff Train, and yours truly, to name just a few. Cer-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1945;left:58">tainly one of my joys as a parent has been to watch </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1966;left:58">both Margaret and William on the cross-country </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1987;left:58">course as they develop the endurance and the mental </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2007;left:58">or psychological strength to run and compete at long-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2028;left:58">distance competition.  It really requires an ability to </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2049;left:58">focus both on the present and the future at the same</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2069;left:58">time: to acknowledge the pain of the present (e.g.,  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2090;left:58">going up hill in mud) and delight in the goal of finish-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2111;left:58">ing – in our Jerusalem. For me, that Jerusalem is not </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2131;left:58">an after-life paradise, but closer to what I understand </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2152;left:58">Blake imagines: here in this pleasant land and arising </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2173;left:58">out of our own satanic mills. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2201;left:58">Liddell’s other sport, (he also was a champion rugby </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2222;left:58">player for Scotland), suggests to us that our spiritual </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2242;left:58">lives are not a form of “parallel play.”  Sport and the </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2263;left:58">religious life in this country seem either to mark very </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2284;left:58">distinct spheres with distinct boundaries or to inter-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2304;left:58">mesh forcefully with evangelical fervor and black and </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2325;left:58">white commitments.  Liddell’s life offers a quieter  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2346;left:58">example of integrating the physical with the spiritual. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2367;left:58">His example also is not without personal sacrifice: he </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2387;left:58">chose not to run in his best event, the 100 meters, at </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2408;left:58">the Olympics because an early heat was scheduled for </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2429;left:58">Sunday. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1503;left:463">Although the Vestry’s principal task is the temporal </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1524;left:463">care of the parish – bluntly: money, buildings, plumb-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1544;left:463">ing, personnel, it also must engage in theological    </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1565;left:463">reflection together.  This is especially true now when </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1586;left:463">we are without clerical leadership.  We have not been </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1606;left:463">entirely alone in these reflections and have had The </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1627;left:463">Rev. Patricia Robertson and The Rev. Emily Blair </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1648;left:463">Stribling with us to challenge and prompt us to not </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1669;left:463">loose sight of this need for keeping the parish’s larger </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1690;left:463">purpose always before us. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1717;left:463">In these next few months the Vestry will need to     </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1738;left:463">develop together more clearly a theology of leader-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1759;left:463">ship.  What does God want the wardens and vestry to </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1780;left:463">do, what does God want clergy to do, what is shared, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1800;left:463">what should be delegated, and what is exclusively the </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1821;left:463">province of the ordained? Can clergy leadership be </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1842;left:463">shared with other parishes and how? The Vestry will </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1862;left:463">have to develop some provisional answers to these </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1883;left:463">questions, but it can only do that with the participation </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1904;left:463">of the wider parish. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1932;left:463">In this respect, I like to think Liddell’s life offers hope.  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1953;left:463">He returned to China as a missionary without having </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1973;left:463">been ordained. That came later. I do not honestly </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1994;left:463">know if he suffered from some of our current stereo-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2015;left:463">types of missionaries as culturally insensitive imperi-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2035;left:463">alists, intent upon imparting answers. I suspect not.  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2056;left:463">First, Liddell’s quotation suggests that he might have </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2077;left:463">been acutely aware that good intentions in mission </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2097;left:463">could repel people from the Christian life. Second, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2118;left:463">China in 1930’s was in a state of constant war with </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2139;left:463">Japan on the one hand and between war lords and the </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2160;left:463">Communist Party on the other. The Liddells suffered </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2180;left:463">“significant hardships in China.” Eric Liddell died in a </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2201;left:463">Japanese prison camp, “having won the respect of his </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2222;left:463">captors, [he] is remembered by camp survivors for his </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2243;left:463">ministry among them.” </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2271;left:463">So our task is to lead by example, through witness, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2291;left:463">presence and generosity rather than starting by de-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2312;left:463">claiming answers. That task is also first and foremost </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2333;left:463">to see God in the unseen, in the quotidian, in the steps </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2353;left:463">we take along the way, and even in sport. And as we </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2374;left:463">do so, we run the race set before us, not always know-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2395;left:463">ing what happens to those we meet along the way, or </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2416;left:463">how we will finish, but in love and having faith. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2444;left:463">Faithfully,  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2464;left:463">Ted Fletcher</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:1456;left:58"><i>&quot;We are all missionaries. Wherever we go we either bring people nearer to Christ or we repel them from Christ.&quot;</i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1472;left:741">— Eric Liddell </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3326;left:479"><b>COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3353;left:478">•  Born and raised in the “Carbon City of the </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3376;left:498">World”</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3396;left:478">•  Attended Catholic schools for 12+ years</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3418;left:478">•  Spent most of the winter months ice skating as a </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3441;left:498">child</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3461;left:478">•  Won a cherry pie contest in high school</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3483;left:478">•  Worked for the Pennsylvania Department of </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3505;left:498">Highways</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3525;left:478">•  Seen more of Scotland than people who live there</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3547;left:478">•  Ran my first (and last) 10K when I was 61 (came </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3570;left:498">in second in my age group)</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3591;left:498">Was the only person who spent 22 years at the </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3612;left:498">83D ARCOM </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3632;left:608"><b>Who Am I? </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:2609;left:58"><b>Collect for Eric Liddell on February 22</b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:2610;left:413"><b>nd</b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:2638;left:58">God whose strength bears us up as on mighty wings: </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2659;left:58">We rejoice in remembering your athlete and mission-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2679;left:58">ary Eric Liddell, to who you gave courage and resolu-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2700;left:58">tion in contest and in captivity; and we pray that we </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2721;left:58">also may run with endurance the race set before us </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2741;left:58">and persevere in patient witness, until we wear that </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2762;left:58">crown of victory won for us by Jesus our Savior, who </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2783;left:58">with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2804;left:58">God, for ever and ever. </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3251;left:579">Sarah Vekasi conducting</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3270;left:552">the February 20th Sunday Forum</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3289;left:502">on the <i>Movement to Stop Mountaintop Removal</i>. </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:2835;left:58"><b>LENTEN TEACHINGS ON MDI </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:2867;left:58"><b>St. John’s </b>(The Rev. Emily Blair Stribling) </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2884;left:58">Lent is traditionally a wilderness time. It is a time to </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2905;left:58">contemplate and to reflect upon all that keeps us from</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2925;left:58">a deeper communion with the love of God in Christ </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2946;left:58">that we encounter in the light of Easter. Using scrip-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2967;left:58">ture, poetry and various other writings to guide us, we </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2987;left:58">will explore what wilderness means to each of us, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3008;left:58">what prayer can give voice to in that wilderness and </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3029;left:58">finally what forgiveness and freedom mean to each </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3050;left:58">other. Come willing to  talk, write, sing, and draw </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3070;left:58">what shape each of these themes take in our lives. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3091;left:58">Bring your lunch on Thursday afternoons, 1:15-2:15 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3112;left:58">and join us on this journey together.  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3132;left:72">March 10: <i>Truth and Wilderness</i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3153;left:72">March 17: <i>Poetry and Prayer</i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3174;left:72">March 24: <i>Forgiveness and Freedom</i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3209;left:58"><b>St, Mary &amp; St. Jude: </b>(The Rev. Patricia Robertson) </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3226;left:58">Wednesday evening soup supper (6:00) and study, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3250;left:58"><i>For the Life of the World: Congregations Turned In-</i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3271;left:58"><i>side-Out </i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3288;left:63">This newly designed curriculum walks us through </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3308;left:58">how to go from having a <i>“church-shaped mission to </i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3333;left:58"><i>a mission-shaped church”. </i>Designed to help us    ex-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3350;left:58">plore how all that we do is part of the mission of </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3370;left:58">God. Bring your Bible. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3391;left:72">March 16:  <i>What in the world is the church for?</i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3412;left:72">March 23:  <i>Mission is not a dirty word</i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3432;left:72">March 30:  <i>What does mission look like? </i></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:2609;left:457"><b>OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:2641;left:457">It was a delight, at recent parish meetings, to hear that a </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2661;left:457">number of people in our congregation are interested in </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2682;left:457">attending Diocesan Convention. Since, at this time, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2703;left:457">there are only two positions available from St. Andrew </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2723;left:457">and St. John, I wanted folks to know that there are  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2744;left:457">numerous other ways of serving in the Diocese. If  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2765;left:457">extending your service in a diocesan capacity is of in-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2786;left:457">terest to you please let me know. I would like to pre-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2806;left:457">pare a list to forward to the Bishop or appropriate di-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2827;left:457">ocesan  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2848;left:457">officer. Please let me know who you are and any spe-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2868;left:457">cific skills you have (no special skill required, just in-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2889;left:457">terest). Questions are welcome. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2909;left:457">Rita Redfield, 244-4025.</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3463;left:58"><b>APPRECIATING OUR GIFTS </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3491;left:58">What does it mean to be an Episcopal Church on MDI?</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3510;left:58">A gathering is planned for Saturday, March 5, 10:30-1:00, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3529;left:58">at the Somesville firehouse, </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3533;left:246"><i>(bad weather date of March 6 in</i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3552;left:58"><i>St. Savior&#39;s parish hall, following the combined service).</i></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3548;left:406">The </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3567;left:58">purpose of this meeting will be to identify strengths, learn </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3586;left:58">from each other, identify resources, and brainstorm ideas </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3605;left:58">of how we can work collaboratively.  We know that there </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3624;left:58">are things we could do together that we could not do as</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3643;left:58">individual parishes, with limited resources and over-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3662;left:58">worked individuals.  </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3797;left:58"><b>NOTES FROM THE ORGAN BENCH</b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3829;left:58">The St. John’s pipe organ, “Greta,” is a well-loved and sweet-sounding instru-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3849;left:58">ment. To provide some genealogical information on Greta, following is a brief </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3870;left:58">history of the Hook &amp; Hastings organ company (adapted from </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3891;left:58"><a href="http://www.organclearinghouse.com" target="_blank">www.organclearinghouse.com</a><font color="#000000" face="Times">). In the mid-1870’s, E. &amp; G.G. Hook and Hast-</font></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3911;left:58">ings were the largest and most successful organ company in America. In 1875, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3932;left:58">the forty organs they built included a 50- stop organ for Yale University, a 51-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3953;left:58">stop organ for Unity Church in Chicago, a 40-stop organ in Fall River, and an </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3974;left:58">83-stop organ for Boston’s Holy Cross Cathedral. In addition, they shipped a 12-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3994;left:58">stop two-manual organ to Honolulu. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4025;left:58">Elias and George Hook were the sons of a cabinet-maker from Salem, Massa-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4046;left:58">chusetts. Elias apprenticed with the organ-builder William Goodrich in 1821, as </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4067;left:58">did his younger brother George beginning in 1823. In 1827 Elias and George </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4087;left:58">founded their own company, which subsequently evolved into one of New England’s leading organ-building </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4108;left:58">firms. The brothers had distinct areas of responsibility. Elias took care of the technical design of the instru-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4129;left:58">ments and the business side of the firm, and George attended to the voicing of the instruments. George was an </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4149;left:58">organist himself. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4181;left:58">Beginning in the mid-1850&#39;s, the Hook brothers changed their style of organ-building, which had been Eng-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4201;left:58">lish-influenced, to a type of design influenced by the middle European builders of the era. The technical and </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4222;left:58">tonal qualities of the Hook organs were similar to those of instruments produced by Friedrich Ladegast and </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4243;left:58">Eberhard Friedrich Walcker, and were widely praised by contemporaries.  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4274;left:58">Frank Hastings joined the firm as a draftsman in 1855, when he was a teenager. It was not long before he be-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4294;left:58">came one of the most valued members of the firm. He was made a partner in 1870, and bought the shares of </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4315;left:58">Elias and George after their deaths. Under his direction the company continued to be known as one of the </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4336;left:58">country’s leading organ-builders. His legacy is preserved in the hundreds of instruments still in regular use, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4356;left:58">including Greta. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4377;left:58">Stephen Sampson </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:4418;left:58"><b>THE LIGHTER SIDE... </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:4449;left:58"><b>Phones In Churches</b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4470;left:58">A man in Trenton<font color="#1f497c" face="Times">, </font>New Jersey decided to write a book about churches around the country. He </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4491;left:58">started by flying to San Francisco and started working east from there. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4518;left:58">Going to a very large church, he began taking photographs and making notes. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4546;left:58">He spotted a golden telephone on the vestibule wall and was intrigued with a sign, which read </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4567;left:58">&quot;Calls: $10,000 a minute.&quot; </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4594;left:58">Seeking out the pastor he asked about the phone and the sign. The pastor answered that this golden phone is, in </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4615;left:58">fact, a direct line to heaven and if he pays the price he can talk directly to GOD. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4643;left:58">The man thanked the pastor and continued on his way. As he continued to visit churches in Seattle , Dallas , </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4663;left:58">Los Angeles , Chicago , Milwaukee , and many cities and towns all around the United States , he found more </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4684;left:58">phones, with the same sign, and the same answer from each pastor. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4712;left:58">Finally, he arrived in South Portland, upon entering a church in Lancaster behold - he saw the usual golden </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4732;left:58">telephone. But THIS time, the sign read &quot;Calls: 35 cents&quot;.  Fascinated, he asked to talk to the pastor, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4753;left:58">&quot;Reverend, I have been in cities all across the country and in each church I have found this golden telephone </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4774;left:58">and have been told it is a direct line to Heaven and that I could talk to GOD, but in the other churches the cost </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4794;left:58">was $10,000 a minute. Your sign reads only 35 cents a call. Why?&quot; The pastor, smiling broadly, replied, &quot;Son, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4815;left:58">you&#39;re in Maine now…..You&#39;re in God&#39;s Country. It&#39;s a local call.&quot;</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:4839;left:564"><i>American by Birth -Mainer by the Grace of God.</i></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:4989;left:205"><b>WORSHIP SCHEDULE FOR MARCH </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:5034;left:279"><b>Last Sunday after Epiphany, Sunday, March 6 </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5051;left:315">8:00 a.m.—Holy Eucharist at St. John’s </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:5076;left:295"><b>10:00 a.m. — Joint Service at St. Saviour’s </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:5092;left:237">Psalm 99; Exodus 24:1-218; 2 Peter 1:16-21; Matthew 17:1-9 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5113;left:351">The Rev. Jonathan Appleyard </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5138;left:360"><b>Ash Wednesday, March 9 </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5155;left:374">St. John’s – 12:00 noon </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5179;left:359"><b>Lent 1, Sunday, March 13 </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5196;left:277">8:00 and 10:00 a.m.—Holy Eucharist at St. John’s </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5217;left:212">Psalm 32; Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7; Romans 5:12-19; Matthew 4:1-11 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5237;left:348">The Rev. Emily Blair Stribling </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5262;left:359"><b>Lent 2, Sunday, March 20 </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5279;left:277">8:00 and 10:00 a.m.—Holy Eucharist at St. John’s </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5299;left:230">Psalm 121; Genesis 12:1-4a; Romans 4:1-5, 13-17; John 3:1-17 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5320;left:351">The Rev. Jonathan Appleyard </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5345;left:359"><b>Lent 3, Sunday, March 27</b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5362;left:277">8:00 and 10:00 a.m.—Holy Eucharist at St. John’s </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5382;left:261">Psalm 95; Exodus 17:1-7; Romans 5:1-11; John 4:5-42 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5403;left:348">The Rev. Emily Blair Stribling </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5448;left:264"><b>Thursdays: </b>12:30 p.m.—Holy Eucharist at St. John’s </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:5489;left:313"><b>9:00 Sunday Forums </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:5530;left:300">March 6 — No Forum (Joint Service) </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5554;left:199">March 13 — <i>St. John’s Present and Future, </i>Parish Discussion </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5578;left:155">March 20 — <i>Working for Peace in Palestine</i>, Robert and Maurine Tobin </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5602;left:268">March 27 — <i>End of Life Issues</i>, Alice Downs </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5627;left:139">April 3 — <i>Report on the Camden Conference, </i>Lucy Creevy and Sam Felton </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5651;left:120">April 10 — <i>Religious Themes in Country Music</i>, Fred Benson, Jim Vekasi, et. al. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5675;left:257">April 17 — No Forum (Service at St. Saviour’s) </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5699;left:329">April 24 — No Forum (Easter)</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:5809;left:58"><b>LAND FOR SALE…</b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:5819;left:319">Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have, in Ellsworth, a not-for-profit Assisted Living </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5840;left:58">community/facility for elders?  One where individuals and couples could live, even to the end of their lives, with appro-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5859;left:58">priate levels of  in home care available as needed; with rates based on a percentage of income, so that it was financially</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5878;left:58">available for all?  Where one could have community and privacy?  Where one could feel safe and comfortable, knowing</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5897;left:58">that there would be no need to move again? Where all aspects of life, physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5916;left:58">could be attended to?  It is a dream that could become a reality. There is a 14 acre parcel, between Rts 1 &amp; 184 with sig-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5935;left:58">nificant frontage on both roads and would be a very convenient and accessible place for such a community. Inter-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5954;left:58">ested?  Please come to an exploratory meeting on Thursday, March 10 at 7 PM to discuss the possibilities. Comments, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5973;left:58">ideas, thoughts, and suggestions from as many individuals and groups as possible would be welcome. The meeting will </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5992;left:58">be in the fellowship hall of St. Andrew Lutheran Church (175 Downeast Highway), which just happens to be next to the </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6012;left:58">land under consideration.  FMI contact The Rev. Priscilla Hukki (207) 610-0480</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:6197;left:171">Birthdays </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:6274;left:195">14—Vonnie Bell </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6294;left:190">14—Penny Place </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6315;left:184">15—Kathryn Wake </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6336;left:158">19—Becky Buyers-Basso </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6356;left:151">20—Marissa Buyers-Basso </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6377;left:196">20—Ann Kidder </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6398;left:188">26—Jean Storace </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:6427;left:181">Wedding</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6466;left:134">Anniversaries </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:6538;left:145">4—Eugene and Peggy Walls </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:6601;left:63"><b>WESTSIDE FOOD PANTRY AND</b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6629;left:105"><b>LENTEN ALMS PROJECT </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:6660;left:157"><i>“I was hungry and you fed me.” </i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6679;left:76"><i>“You have been treated generously, so live generously.”  </i></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:6694;left:221">Matthew 10:8</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:6716;left:58"><i>A joint observance of the St. Saviour’s and St. Andrew </i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6736;left:58"><i>&amp; St. John congregations to the Glory of God and the </i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6757;left:58"><i>benefit of our neighbors-in-need. </i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6784;left:58">As Jesus sends his disciples out into the countryside he </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6805;left:58">prepares them with instructions on how to conduct </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6826;left:58">themselves in a manner befitting their mission.  In deal-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6846;left:58">ing with the situations they encounter and the people </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6867;left:58">they meet daily, he instructs: “You have been treated </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6888;left:58">generously, so live generously.”  Being in the world as a </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6909;left:58">follower of Jesus Christ is about generosity—the moti-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6929;left:58">vation, inspiration, and animation of all life. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6960;left:58">So here’s a question as Lent begins: Have you been </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6981;left:58">treated generously? If you need a jumping-off place </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7002;left:58">then consider that God’s ultimate act of generosity was </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7022;left:58">to forgive us.  God, through Jesus Christ, keeps open his </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7043;left:58">relations with us by taking away our offenses and weak-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7064;left:58">nesses and failures.  None of these faults separate us </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7084;left:58">from God and his love.  How generous!  Try as you or I </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7105;left:58">might, we cannot earn this generosity, nor does God im-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7126;left:58">pose a means test to determine if we deserve it.  God is </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7147;left:58">generous to a fault </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7178;left:58">So, what’s the answer? Have you been treated gener-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7198;left:58">ously? If you know so, then Jesus simply orders his fol-</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7196;left:617">Michele Daley </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:6174;left:477">lower to “live generously.” Go out and live gener-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6195;left:477">ously.  Lent as a season of heart, mind, intention, and </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6215;left:477">spirit for God’s church, enables us to take stock of </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6236;left:477">where we are on the “generosity scale”—low, me-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6257;left:477">dium, high? And with our desire to reflect the gener-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6277;left:477">osity shown us in living generously, Lent encourages </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6298;left:477">the practices of becoming more generous. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6329;left:477">The joint Lenten project with St. Saviour’s this year is </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6350;left:477">aimed at nurturing our generosity through the tradi-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6371;left:477">tional practices of <i>prayer, fasting, and alms-giving</i>.  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6391;left:477">And when our praying has inspired our fasting and our </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6412;left:477">fasting has generated alms, we will gather those alms</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6433;left:477">at the conclusion of Lent and be generous with our </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6453;left:477">Island neighbors-in-need.  Our alms will be given to </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6474;left:477">the two feeding ministries of our parishes: The Bar </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6495;left:477">Harbor Food Pantry and the Westside Food Pantry to </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6515;left:477">be as generous to our neighbors-in-need as our Lord </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6536;left:477">Christ has called us to be. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6567;left:477">Each of us is invited to “keep” a Holy Lent.  There </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6588;left:477">will be plenty of encouragement and guidance, starting </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6609;left:477">with the suggestions found in this edition of the Net </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6629;left:477">Tender.  And, as we pray, fast, and gather alms let us </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6650;left:477">keep our eye on the Holy Week and Easter celebra-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6671;left:477">tions—where God treated us with ultimate generosity.  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6691;left:477">If that generosity takes deeper hold on us this Lent and </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6712;left:477">Easter, then we will find the inspiration and courage to </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6733;left:477">live generously—this is promised.  God is as good at </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6753;left:477">his promises as he is with his generosity—right?! </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6774;left:477">Keeping a generous Lent with you, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6794;left:477">Dean Henry, Co-Chair Westside Food Pantry Ministry </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7402;left:58">LENT is the intentional season!  It’s</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7423;left:58">the church’s season “to keep.”  In </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7444;left:58">other words, we “keep” Lent by our </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7465;left:58">intention; we are disciplined during </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7485;left:58">Lent like in no other season of the </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7506;left:58">church year.  The traditional disci-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7527;left:58">plines of LENT--<i><b>prayer, fasting, </b></i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7551;left:58"><i><b>and alms giving</b></i>--are aimed at deepening our life with </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7568;left:58">Christ<i><b>.  </b></i>That “deepening” comes to those who are in-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7589;left:58">tentional to keep up their disciplines—not as favor to </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7609;left:58">be earned, but so as to align our will with God by </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7630;left:58">practice.  Or, to put into practice the commitments of </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7651;left:58">the season so the whole season becomes a tool by </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7672;left:58">which the Holy Spirit transforms our commitments </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7692;left:58">into new ways of being.  LENT is a commitment with </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7713;left:58">a structure.  Be sure to pick-up a small pamphlet titled: </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7737;left:58"><i>How to Keep Lent </i>developing your own plan to keep </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7754;left:58">Lent.   Here are some further suggestions and ways </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7775;left:58">you can keep a Holy Lent:   </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7799;left:58"><b>Prayer &amp; Study: </b>Setting aside 10-15 minutes each </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7816;left:58">day to quietly read and reflect on Holy Scripture fol-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7837;left:58">lowed by 5-10 minutes of silent prayer. </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7859;left:58">• </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7858;left:85">Resources for scripture reflection: <i>Good Lord, </i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7882;left:85"><i>Deliver Us: A Lenten Journey </i></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7883;left:306"><i>(Available in church</i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7903;left:85"><i>the Last Sunday after Epiphany, March 6th)</i></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7919;left:58">• </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7918;left:85">This may be combined with The Book of Common </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7939;left:85">Prayer <i>Daily Devotions for Individuals and Fami-</i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7963;left:85"><i>lies, </i>p. 136.  Another faithful resource is <i>Forward </i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7984;left:85"><i>Day-by-Day </i>complete with the scripture readings </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8001;left:85">appointed for the day and a brief meditation. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8022;left:85">(available in book form in the church, or </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8042;left:85"><a href="http://www.forwardmovement.org/forward-day-by-day" target="_blank">www.forwardmovement.org/<WBR>forward-day-by-day</a><font color="#000000" face="Times">) </font></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8064;left:58">• </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8063;left:85">Attendance at the weekly worship of God with the </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8084;left:85">Holy Eucharist and Holy Week services. Be sure </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8104;left:85">to get a good start on keeping Lent by attending </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8125;left:85">the Ash Wednesday Liturgy on March 9</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8146;left:85">Explore and practice various forms of silent prayer </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8167;left:85">this Lent.  Introduction to simple practices to build </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8187;left:85">on will be presented and sampled at a weekly </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8208;left:85">workshop at St. John’s during Lent. Time and </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8229;left:85">place will be announced soon! </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8253;left:58"><b>Fasting: </b>Fast from food, drink, “carbon”, or stimulus.  </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8271;left:58">• </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8270;left:85">Turn off the TV or car radio. Be creative--make </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8291;left:85">space and silence in your day, even for short peri-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8311;left:85">ods of time.  </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8333;left:58">• </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8332;left:85">Give up a food or drink that is a favorite of yours.  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8353;left:85">When your stomach and mind tell you “I must </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7402;left:490">have what you are denying me.”  Remember our </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7423;left:490">Lord’s 40 day fast and his citation of Scripture to </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7444;left:490">the devil:  “Man does not live by bread alone, but </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7465;left:490">by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7485;left:490">God.”   </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7506;left:490">How about a “carbon” fast!  Leave the car at home </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7527;left:490">and walk to pick up the mail or other errands.  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7547;left:490">Have two cars? Use only one car a week: carpool, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7568;left:490">pick someone up for church, combine trips and </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7589;left:490">errands. </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7609;left:490">Feel the pangs of hunger and identify with those </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7630;left:490">who daily experience such feelings.  Fast, do not </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7651;left:490">eat on Friday mornings until 3PM—the hour that </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7672;left:490">marks the death of our Lord on the cross.  Allow </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7692;left:490">yourself to feel the hunger and the intensity of </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7713;left:490">your longing to be satisfied. Make this longing </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7734;left:490">your prayer for God and let him satisfy your hun-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7754;left:490">gering heart. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7779;left:463"><b>Alms Giving </b>Combine your fasting with your alms</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7796;left:463">giving. </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7816;left:490">Instead of going out to a restaurant on a Friday or</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7837;left:490">Saturday evening, eat a simple meal and set the </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7858;left:490">money you did not spend on dinner aside for our </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7879;left:490">Lenten Alms Project—<i><b>The Bar Harbor &amp; </b></i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7903;left:490"><i><b>Westside Pantries</b>.</i></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7920;left:490">Whatever you save from your daily fast, set aside </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7941;left:490">physically and offer a prayer to God:  “Heavenly </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7961;left:490">Father, I thank you for these alms.  May they be </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7982;left:490">used to satisfy the daily needs of your people and </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8003;left:490">our brothers and sisters who are hungry and with-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8023;left:490">out the basic necessities of life.  And, may your </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8044;left:490">Name receive the praise that these alms call forth </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8065;left:490">from those who are helped.” </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7361;left:58"><b>LENT: The Church’s Season “to keep” </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8131;left:499"><b>ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICES </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8155;left:591"><b>On March 9</b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8156;left:717"><b>th</b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8183;left:576"><b>Church of Our Father</b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8200;left:576">7:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8225;left:612"><b>St. Saviour’s </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8242;left:592">8:30 a.m. and noon </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8266;left:623"><b>St. John’s </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8283;left:621">12:00 noon </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8308;left:621"><b>St. Mary’s </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8324;left:627">5:00 p.m. </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:9613;left:455">8 </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8549;left:45">The Net Tender - </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8560;left:281">March 2011</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8594;left:93">St. Andrew &amp; St. John Episcopal Church </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8624;left:45">315 Main Street ● P.O. Box 767 ● Southwest Harbor, ME 04679 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8639;left:45">Phone: Church Office 207-244-3229 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8655;left:45">E-mail: <b><a href="mailto:saints315@myfairpoint.net" target="_blank">saints315@myfairpoint.net</a> </b>/ website: <b><a href="http://www.saintsmdi.org" target="_blank">www.saintsmdi.org</a> </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8679;left:45"><b>Office Hours: </b>Monday </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8676;left:203">Tuesday </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8676;left:267">Thursday, 8:30 a.m.—2:30 p.m.</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:9165;left:139"><b>INSIDE: </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:9181;left:68">Anniversaries/Birthdays</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9181;left:251">6 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9199;left:68">Come Home for Supper</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9199;left:251">1</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9216;left:68">Forums</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9216;left:251">5 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9233;left:68">Land for Sale (assisted living)5</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9250;left:68">Lenten Teachings</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9250;left:251">3 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9268;left:68">Lent</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9268;left:251">7 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9285;left:68">Lighter Side</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9285;left:251">4 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9302;left:68">MDI Episcopal Churches</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9302;left:251">3 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9319;left:68">Notes from Organ Bench</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9319;left:251">4 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9336;left:68">Opportunities to Serve </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:9354;left:68">Sr. Warden’s Notes</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9354;left:239">2/3 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9371;left:68">Vestry Bullets </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9371;left:251">1</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9388;left:68">Westside Food Pantry</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:9406;left:68">Who Am I?</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9406;left:239">3/6 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9423;left:68">Worship Schedule/Scripture 5 </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8729;left:45"><b>Priest Associate </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8744;left:45">Emily Blair Stribling </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8768;left:45"><b>Parish Administrator </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8783;left:45">Michele Daley  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8808;left:45"><b>Music Director</b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8823;left:45">Stephen Sampson </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8848;left:45"><b>Editors </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8862;left:45">Nicole Carreno </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8883;left:45">Mary Vekasi </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:9482;left:59">If you no longer wish to receive the</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9499;left:59">Net Tender or prefer to receive it by  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9516;left:59">e-mail, please call the church office. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9558;left:100">Deadline for articles for  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9575;left:79">March Net Tender is March 25</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:9143;left:322"><b>DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION</b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:9175;left:322">On February 17, The Vestry and Wardens entered into a contract with </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9195;left:322">Eden Builders of Bar Harbor for design and construction of our addition </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9216;left:322">and rehabilitation work. Eden Builders is a small firm headed by architect </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9237;left:322">Todd Hardy specializing in design/build projects. We worked with them</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9257;left:322">previously in our very successful repairs of water damage at the Sawyer </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9278;left:322">house and they come highly recommended by their other clients.  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9309;left:322">The contract provides for design under an hourly fee. Cost estimates will </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9330;left:322">be prepared with increasing accuracy as design proceeds. Construction </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9351;left:322">price will be negotiated as a part of the final stage of design. After agree-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9371;left:322">ing on a final design and cost, the contract will be amended to include </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9392;left:322">construction. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9423;left:322">The Design and Construction Committee and Todd Hardy have started the </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9444;left:322">next stage of design comprised of fire and building code review, local </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9464;left:322">zoning review, verification of the preliminary design, and a cost estimate. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9485;left:322">Once that is approved, Todd will proceed with preparing detailed design </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9506;left:322">documents and estimates. The Design and Construction Committee will </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9527;left:322">be closely involved with each stage and will keep the congregation  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9547;left:322">informed of progress. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9567;left:322">Jim Vekasi</div>
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